How do I find the width & height of a terminal win

Question

As a simple example, I want to write a CLI script which can print = across the entire width of the terminal window.

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
echo str_repeat('=', ???);

or

#!/usr/bin/env python
print '=' * ???

or

#!/usr/bin/env bash
x=0
while [ $x -lt ??? ]; do echo -n '='; let x=$x+1 done; echo

Answer 1

To do this in Windows CLI environment, the best way I can find is to use the mode command and parse the output.

function getTerminalSizeOnWindows() {
  $output = array();
  $size = array('width'=>0,'height'=>0);
  exec('mode',$output);
  foreach($output as $line) {
    $matches = array();
    $w = preg_match('/^\s*columns\:?\s*(\d+)\s*$/i',$line,$matches);
    if($w) {
      $size['width'] = intval($matches[1]);
    } else {
      $h = preg_match('/^\s*lines\:?\s*(\d+)\s*$/i',$line,$matches);
      if($h) {
        $size['height'] = intval($matches[1]);
      }
    }
    if($size['width'] AND $size['height']) {
      break;
    }
  }
  return $size;
}

I hope it's useful!

NOTE: The height returned is the number of lines in the buffer, it is not the number of lines that are visible within the window. Any better options out there?

Answer 2

• tput cols tells you the number of columns.
• tput lines tells you the number of rows.

Answer 3

yes = | head -n$(($(tput lines) * $COLUMNS)) | tr -d '\n'